Iraq: Just how many reasons were there, exactly?

In catching up on the backlog of podcasts, I ran across this hour which included clipped comments from everybody's favorite Senator from Delaware. Listening to Joe's prattling on about reworking the Authorization to Use Military Force in Iraq reminded me of this offering--also from last week--from VDH.

Compare it to Joe's wilfully obtuse comments on the "reasons" we went to war in Iraq. Namely, these:

There were numerous reasons to remove Saddam — 23, according to the Congress that authorized the war — but the administration privileged just one, the sensible fear of weapons of mass destruction. That was legitimate and understandable, and would prove effective so long as either a postwar weapons-trove turned up or the war and its aftermath finished without a hitch.

Unfortunately neither proved to be the case. So with that prime rationale discredited, the partisan Congress suddenly reinvented itself in protesting that it had really voted for war on only one cause, not 23. And when the news and evidence both went bad, that lone reason was now pronounced null and void and hardly a basis for war.

23 is not 1. I feel no sympathy for Joe or Hillary or any other Democrat who cries foul here; "I was lied to!," offers no real haven. If you were stupid enough to be fooled into war, why would I want you anywhere near any important national decisions?